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JAKARTA, DISWAY.ID – Serious spider-like creatures have been seen living within the cracks on the Martian surface.
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter has managed to capture new images of this interesting phenomenon in the region known as Inca City near the Red Planet’s south pole.
This phenomenon occurs when spring sunlight begins to warm the layers of carbon dioxide stored during the dark winter on Mars.
This causes the carbon dioxide ice in the lower layer to turn into gas, which then builds up and penetrates the layer of ice above it with a thickness of up to 3.3 feet (1 meter).
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The released gas brings dark dust from underground to the surface, creating a geyser-like exploding effect so that the dust is blown out to settle on the surface in spider-shaped crack formations measuring 0.03 to 0.6 miles (45 meters to 1 kilometer) wide. .
Reported from the page SPACE, The Inca city, or Angustus Labyrinthus officially, features a linear and geometric network of mountains similar to Inca ruins on Earth.
The formation is about 53 miles (86 km) wide, indicating that it may have originally been an impact crater with ridges formed by the process of lava rising through cracks in the Martian crust and being eroded over time.
However, the process of forming the Inca City is still a mystery to scientists. There is speculation that the dunes have turned to rock over time or that material such as magma or sand seeped through cracks in Martian rock sheets.
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Another possibility is that the ridge could be an esker, a winding structure formed by past glacier activity.
The latest image of Inca City was taken by the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on February 27, 2024, during Martian fall.
Previously, on October 4 2020, the Cassis instrument (Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System) on ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter had also documented a similar feature near the south pole of Mars.
In this way, understanding of the geological processes that occur on Mars is increasingly developing and being revealed through research and observations carried out by scientists.
